Low-Phase-Noise Frequency-Agile Hybrid Integrated Laser Offering Highly Linear Tuning for FMCW LiDAR

Peng, H.; Chen, Y.; Lopez, I. Robles; Lihachev, G.; Tian, H.; Voloshin, A.; Riemensberger, J.; Maier, P.; Skacel, S.; Lauermann, M.; Attanasio, A.; Randel, S.; Freude, W.; Bhave, S.; Kippenberg, T. J.; Koos, C.

doi:10.1364/cleo_si.2024.sm2m.1

conference paper

Low-Phase-Noise Frequency-Agile Hybrid Integrated Laser Offering Highly Linear Tuning for FMCW LiDAR

Peng, H.

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Chen, Y.

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Lopez, I. Robles

2024

2024 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2024

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

We demonstrate piezo-tunable hybrid integrated lasers offering linewidths below 100 Hz along with highly linear and fast frequency tuning. For a tuning range of 1 GHz, residual nonlinearities are below 0.07 %, allowing for 5 cm ranging precision in an FMCW LiDAR demonstration.